Matt Stenson

“If Jesus’ death is different, it is not because he suffered more than other martyrs, either physically or spiritually, nor because his death was lonelier, or more humiliating, or more gruesome (despite Mel Gibson’s heroic attempt to render it so). This common idea is quite mistaken. Such considerations are not what make Jesus’ death unique. The uniqueness of his death is found in its meaning”
― James Warren, Compassion Or Apocalypse?: A Comprehensible Guide to the Thought of Rene Girard